---
type: "Bill"
title: "Freedom to Negotiate Health Care Rates."
description: "Freedom to Negotiate Health Care Rates."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 247"
citation: "North Carolina HB 247 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CONTRACTS", "CORPORATIONS", "NONPROFIT", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Avila", "Burr", "Starnes"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2013-03-06"
last_action: "2013-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7f77b79-4357-4d60-8e3a-f5e7ad3f0ca4"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H247&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3751d63c2cc669ee40fc62682b6e2238d55f81ce7eccb8d31d364f02205a9fc9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina HB 247 (2013) — Freedom to Negotiate Health Care Rates.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v3.pdf)
5. **SL2013-46** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H247v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **102–10** (pass) · lower
- SECOND READING — **40–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Avila — primary (person)
- Burr — primary (person)
- Starnes — primary (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-05-08** Ch. SL 2013-46 `became-law`
- **2013-05-08** Signed by Gov. 5/8/2013 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-01** Pres. To Gov. 5/1/2013 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-04-30** Ratified
- **2013-04-29** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-25** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2013
- **2013-04-25** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2013-04-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-04-01** Ref To Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-04-01** Rec From House
- **2013-03-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-03-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-03-27** Placed On Cal For 03/28/2013
- **2013-03-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-03-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-14** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-14** Withdrawn From Com
- **2013-03-07** Ref To Com On Judiciary Subcommittee A `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7f77b79-4357-4d60-8e3a-f5e7ad3f0ca4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).